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ACC All Access: A look at ACC football schedules for Virginia and Virginia Tech heading into 2013 season

By Norm Wood

11:57 a.m. EST, January 11, 2013

Virginia will get a visit from Phoebus High graduate Tajh Boyd and Clemson next football season, while Virginia Tech will play the easiest conference slate of any team in the ACC.

The ACC released its slate of 2013 conference opponents for every member of the conference. Dates and times for conference games will be released at a later date.

With the addition of new members Pittsburgh and Syracuse, an unavoidable aspect of scheduling was teams will have to make some road trips to the same places they went this past season, or host some teams they hosted this past season.

U.Va. will host Coastal Division foes Duke, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, and travel to Coastal opponents Miami, North Carolina and Pittsburgh. It'll be U.Va.'s first trip to Pittsburgh since the '06 season. U.Va. will play at Maryland, which continues to be the Cavaliers' primary crossover opponent from the Atlantic Division.

U.Va. will also host Clemson, which represents the Cavaliers' rotating crossover foe from the Atlantic Division. Boyd, who is Clemson's quarterback, announced this week he plans to return to college for his senior year. It'll be the first time U.Va. has hosted Clemson since the '08 season.

Tech will host Coastal Division opponents Duke, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, and travel to play Coastal Division teams Georgia Tech, Miami and U.Va. Virginia Tech will play at Boston College, which will remain Tech's primary Atlantic Division crossover opponent. Tech hosts Maryland, which will be Tech's rotating crossover opponent from the Atlantic Division.

With a .440 winning percentage (44-56), Tech's 2013 conference opponents had the worst combined record in the 2012 season of any ACC member school. No other team in the ACC will play fewer conference opponents that finished with winning records last season (two) than Tech.

As far as the non-conference slate is concerned, Tech will play Alabama in Atlanta on Aug. 31, Western Carolina on Sept. 7, at East Carolina on Sept. 14 and Marshall on Sept. 21.

U.Va.'s conference opponents for the 2013 season had a combined winning percentage of .549 (56-46). In non-conference games, U.Va. is scheduled to play Brigham Young on Aug. 31, at Penn State on Sept. 14, Virginia Military Institute on Sept. 21 and Ball State on Oct. 5. Penn State may be trying to get out of its game against U.Va.

BC plays the toughest conference schedule next season. Its opponents had a combined .608 winning percentage (62-40) this past season, and the Eagles play an ACC-high six conference opponents that had winning records in 2012.